<DIV>Most people know Ted Danson as the affable bartender Sam Malone in the long-running<BR>television series Cheers. But fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a half<BR>decades, Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off a looming global<BR>catastrophe—the massive destruction of our planet's oceanic biosystems and the complete<BR>collapse of the world's major commercial fisheries. </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>In Oceana, Danson details his journey from joining a modest local protest in the mid-<BR>1980s to oppose offshore oil drilling near his Southern California neighborhood to his current<BR>status as one of the world's most influential oceanic environmental activists, testifying before<BR>congressional committees in Washington, D.C., addressing the World Trade Organization in<BR>Zurich, Switzerland, and helping found Oceana, the largest organization in the world focused<BR>solely on ocean conservation.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>In his incisive, conversational voice, Danson describes what has happened to our oceans in<BR>just the past half-century, ranging from the ravages of overfishing and habitat destruction to the<BR>devastating effects of ocean acidification and the wasteful horrors of fish farms. Danson also<BR>shares the stage of Oceana with some of the world's most respected authorities in the fields<BR>of marine science, commercial fishing, and environmental law, as well as with other influential<BR>activists.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Combining vivid, personal prose with an array of stunning graphics, charts, and photographs,<BR>Oceana powerfully illustrates the impending crises and offers solutions that may allow us<BR>to avert them, showing you the specific courses of action you can take to become active,<BR>responsible stewards of our planet's most precious resource—its oceans.</DIV>